James Caviezel, who played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson‘s The Passion of the Christ, was hospitalized with cuts and bruises after he was involved in an accident in which someone tossed a bicycle in the path of his moving Harley Davidson motorcycle, in Leavenworth, Washington Thursday, police said.

Trooper Rich Magnussen said the 40-year-old actor’s injuries “could have been a lot worse” had he not been wearing a helmet, and that the 42-year-old man who tossed the bicycle in the actor’s path might have been suffering from mental issues.